18th Mass Spectrometry School in Biotechnology and Medicine
MSBM is once again hosted at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies, in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The venue is just a stone’s throw away from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Dubrovnik’s Old Town.
Whether you are in the early stages of a PhD or Post-Doc program, an industrial scientist in a new field or just want to learn more about mass spectrometry to help your career, the course at MSBM is a great way to experience a crash course in the field, all whilst enjoying the Dalmatian coastline.
During the week you will also benefit from sharing your work with your peers during a poster session, and get the chance to build a strong network with both your peers and renowned faculty members.
We have already confirmed a number of guest faculty members, all of whom are world leading in their mass spectrometry fields. Including:
- Prof Ryan Kelly, Brigham Young University, USA
- Dr. Saer Samanipour, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Prof Lekha Sleno, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
- Victor Spelling, AstraZeneca, Sweden
- Dr. Yury Tsybin, Spectroswiss, Switzerland
Registration
Registration will close on 12th June 2026.
Registration fees
- Academic registration: €604.03
- Industrial registration: €775.00
- On-site accommodation: €551.61
- Accompanying person: €289.51
It includes:
- access to the course
- accommodation for the week
- breakfast, lunch, tea/coffee, snacks
- banquet dinner
Program
The MSBM program is taught through a combination of lectures, workshops and tutorials.
The core syllabus remains constant, every year – covering all the basics for modern mass spectrometry before going into the details of the key applications in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. The core syllabus is summarized below. The actual decision about what sections are given by what faculty member for any year will vary slightly depending on the invited faculty.
18th Mass Spectrometry School in Biotechnology and Medicine 2026: Program
Core MSBM Syllabus
As the summer school is deigned to be suitable for attendees from a wide variety of backgrounds, there is a standard core syllabus that we cover every year:
- Mass spectrometry basics
- Introductions to main classes of mass analysers – ToF, ion traps, quadrupoles, FTMS etc.
- Ionization sources – ESI, MALDI etc.
- Ion mobility
- Separations methods – LC, CE, HILIC, fractionation etc.
- Tandem MS – CID, ECD, UVPD, SRM, MSM, DDA, DIA etc.
- Mass spectrometry systems – e.g. LC-ESI-QToF, IMS-MSMS etc.
- Proteomics – bottom-up, top-down, quantitative etc.
- Other omics – lipidomics, metabolomics, glyomics etc.
- MS data processing and Informatics
This didactic program will commence on the Monday. Please note that a written examination is distributed on Monday that is collected at the week’s end. For those students who pass the examination, credits may be available at their EU home institutions. In some cases the same may be true for Russian institutions, but in these cases the students will have to explore this on their own as we have an agreement only within the EU.
Poster Information
All attendees are invited to present a poster describing some part of their research or professional interest. There is a dedicated poster session and the posters are entered into a competition judged by the visiting faculty. The winning poster presenters get to present their research in mini-presentations in the main theatre.
Posters should be A0 and designed in Portrait Format. (Long and tall, not wide and short)
We will send out an email requesting your poster titles and abstracts (~150-200 words) 2 weeks before the event, so they can be included in the program.
18th Mass Spectrometry School in Biotechnology and Medicine 2026: Poster session
Sponsors
The MSBM summer school would not be possible without the generous sponsorship of our sponsors. We gratefully acknowledge the following companies for helping us to deliver the MSBM Summer School.
18th Mass Spectrometry School in Biotechnology and Medicine: Sponsors
Venue
The MSBM Summer School is held in the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), just outside the old city walls of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic coast.
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a historic city and famous tourist destination at the southern tip of the Republic of Croatia. Dubrovnik is rich in cultural and historical monuments and is included in UNESCO World Heritage List. Over the centuries it has become popular for its idyllic positioning on the coast in temperate waters and stunning views. More recently it is starting to build a name for its fusion of culture, food, climate, and mass spectrometry!
